Results
If the result list is too large, please consider these hints
- Reduce the number of websites.
- Add more keywords.
- Use quotes for building terms from keywords. For example, the phrase banner image searches for all articles containing both words. However, "banner image" searches for the exact two-word phrase.
Movalog, Tutorials, 27 KB, 682 words
There are several features of the <MTCommentAuthorIdentity> that annoys me.
target="_blank"
I absolutely hate links opening in new windows/tabs without my permission. My view on this is that if I want something to open in a new window/tab I will instruct it to do so! A bug with the developers (#1313) to remove the target="_blank" but its still not happened. So, in lib/MT/Template/Context.pm and php/lib/function.MTCommentAuthorLink.php search for
<a target="_blank" title="%s" href="%s%s?__mode=red;id=%d">%s</a>
and
<a target="_blank" title="%s" href="%s">%s</a>
and remove the target="_blank"
Redirecting
With MT-Blacklist protecting my Movable Type...
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Movalog, Tutorials, 27 KB, 707 words
In a recent thread on the MT forums, a person asked how you could make the dates on entries relative to the current time. This means instead of "Posted on August 1st 2004" it would be "Posted 3 days ago." You could use the RelativeDate plugin but that would require you to rebuild your pages everyday (of course this can be done via a cron job).
Lucky I found this PHP script written by Kristine (kadyellebee on the forums). For this code to work, you will need to be using PHP enabled templates. Towards the top of your templates you should find a tag similar to <$MTEntryDate$>
Just replace that with <?php //offset is how many hours away you are from your server. $offset = "0";...
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Eat Drink Sleep MT, Tutorials, 19 KB, 548 words
Google Suggest offers suggestions while you're typing in a search term. If you don't know exactly what you're looking for or how to spell it, the Suggest feature can make finding what you want easier. I've added the same functionality to danandsherree.com. Try it - start typing something in the search box at the right and watch the suggestions appear! It was a pretty easy feature to institute.
In an amazing piece of coincidence, Arvind at Movalog has just announced Suggest Search. For better or worse, his approach works a bit differently than mine.
If you want to use my incarnation of Suggest Search you'll first need a list of suggested...
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Movalog, Tutorials, 27 KB, 638 words
UPDATE
Typepad has moblogging built in but what can you do with MT. There are certain scripts you could setup on your servers. Pop2Blog is one such script, and another is pop3-to-blog. However with these scripts you would need to setup cron jobs to scan your emails and then post to MT.
That's when I found Mfop2
Mfop2 allows you to moblog without setting up any special scripts on your own mail server. To use Mfop2, all you have to do is register some of your blog details and you will be able to post to your blog from your mobile by emailing your blog entry with images attached to mfop2@bastish.net.
Another interesting option is mobileMT
mobileMT is a WAP interface for the MovableType...
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Brad Choate, Plugins, 78 KB, 2031 words
<MTOnThisDay> Movable Type Plugin
The plugin support for Movable Type 2.2 is fantastic! And now we can develop the stuff that Ben just hasn't gotten around to yet. Here's one-- I've created a container tag that lets you pull entries that match the current system/entry month and day.
If you want to read more about it, visit the MT Plugin support forum page I've set up for this plugin.
To download the plugin, click here.
Updated on July 5. See included readme.txt file for details.
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Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 18 KB, 850 words
Sometimes you might want to link to a popup window from your Movable Type weblog. For example you can make your About page a popup instead of a separate page. Although using the target="blank" attribute in a hyperlink can generate a new page, using javascript commands for popups will give you more control over the appearance and location of the popup.
Movable Type already uses popups. You can create a link to an image file that will create a popup of the image when clicked (see Uploading Images and Photos). There is javascript code in the default headers of your index and archive templates for OpenComments and OpenTrackback that can be used to invoke comment and trackback popup...
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geekmum {movable cafe}, Tutorials, 18 KB, 347 words
I want to display a list of categories in a sidebar on my Category Archive Template page. If I enter the code from the Main Index, my category archive sidebar comes up empty (literally, it displays nothing under the categories heading). To fix that, I am calling that same code into my category archive template as a php include.
Create a new index template called categories.php and place in it the sidebar code (from main index template) for your CATEGORIES:
<MTSubCategories> <MTSubCatIsFirst><ul></MTSubCatIsFirst> <MTIfNonZero tag="MTCategoryCount"> <li><a href="<$MTCategoryArchiveLink$>"...
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PubHacks, Tutorials, 7 KB, 319 words
In between putting this up and going back there now to make a link to it, I see it's a bit different than when I first installed this. The one I was using simply took you to the Individual Archive Page where the comment was posted; this new version takes you directly to the comment. But it's set up here for .php so if you're using something else I'm guessing you'll have to change that.
<MTComments lastn="5"> <$MTCommentAuthorLink spam_protect="1"$>: <$MTCommentBody remove_html="1" trim_to="100"$>... [<a href="<$MTBlogArchiveURL$><$MTCommentEntryID pad="1"$>.php#<MTCommentID>">go</a>]<br/><br/> </MTComments>
The "lastn=5" is how many...
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Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 34 KB, 3291 words
Moving your Movable Type blog to a new server or to a new host is much more perilous than you might think. If not done properly, you could lose all of your entries. I recently went through this exercise and what saved me was a set of instructions from MT user Russcam. What I've done here is reworked Russcam's instructions for what worked for me with moving a site with multiple MT blogs. In some cases in this document I copy his words, word for word. I may get skewered for plagarism here, but I hate PDFs and need a web-findable record of what I did. This is essentially Russ's work, with my tweeks and ammendments. Please leave comments, questions, or proposed amendments in the...
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Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 23 KB, 981 words
Movable Type uses CSS elements defined in your weblog's stylesheet template to control font sizes as well as other style factors. The following graphic indicates which default stylesheet classes correspond to which heading and text elements in the default Gettysburg style.
To change the size of one of the font elements, you need to change the stylesheet. For example in the default Gettysburg stylesheet, you'll find the following:
.content p { color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; margin-bottom: 10px; }
Movable Type uses absolute-size keywords for font sizes in the...
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Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 19 KB, 212 words
Updated. Originally posted March, 2004 There are a couple of ways for one to easily add a poll to one's blog. 1. BlogPoll BlogPoll is a free service that can host your poll. You use Javascript to display the poll on your site. Note that the BlogPoll script uses a stylesheet that has a "content" class that may override your CSS "content" class in your blog stylesheet, causing some funky coloring on your site. If you experience this problem, to fix it, add a link rel tag right after the BlogPoll script code like so: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.yourblog.com/styles-site.css" /> Adding the link rel in that spot is not exactly valid...
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Six Apart Knowledgebase, Manuals, 26 KB, 364 words
Question
I'm using a plugin, and the output does not change when I refresh the page.
Answer
Most Movable Type plugins are static, which means they only change when the templates are rebuilt. If you want something that will change every time your browser refreshes, you need a dynamic solution.
Examples of dynamic solutions are PHP, SSI, and Javascript. If you are using the MySQL backend, you can also use PHP to connect directly to the database.
With the implementation of dynamic publishing in version 3.1 of Movable Type, more and more plugins...
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Brad Choate, Plugins, 76 KB, 3143 words
Blogs that have multiple authors sometimes have the need for a 'credits' page or something like that that lists everyone. This plugin allows you to do just that by providing a <MTAuthors> tag that Movable Type lacks. Continue reading for documentation and download link.
Availability
You can download this plugin here: mtauthors-1_32.zip
Installation
To install, place the 'authors.pl' file in...
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Brad Choate, Tutorials, 156 KB, 6962 words
Matt Haughey has a great article on how he uses Movable Type to do it all (apparently, Kottke does too… can't wait to see his article).
Anyhow, I wanted to share a tidbit in that vein. I've just set this up recently, and I'm in the process of moving the rest of my static content to use it. What I did: • Created a new Movable Type blog and named it "bradchoate.com: Static Content". • Deleted all the Index templates. • Deleted all the archive templates, except for the Individual archive template. • Made sure individual archives were enabled. • Made the archive path the root...
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A List Apart, Tutorials, 10 KB, 848 words
Setting up a consistent, well-organized website is kind of like building a new house. You can rush in, sticking bricks and mortar hither and yon with wanton abandon, and wonder why a few months down the track your roof leaks and visitors are hit by falling debris.
Or you can plan ahead, and make up a blueprint for your site, keeping expandability in mind at all times. After all, what designer doesn't want to add new content? And what site doesn't sometimes need to change its underlying technology?
Sadly enough, a frequently overlooked step in this process is the structure of your links - the actual URLs you'll be using to point to items on your site....
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geekmum {movable cafe}, Tutorials, 19 KB, 549 words
One very exciting new feature in MT3.2 is the new handling of the default templating system. Instead of one consolidated file tucked away in the source code, the default templates have been created individually and are stored in the default_templates folder in the MT directory. Customizations are much simpler now - no more hacks - just edit a default template right from the folder. Thanks to the new TemplateRefresh feature (a plugin included in the MT installation), there is great ease in applying default templates for use across your entire installation, both for existing AND newly created blogs. All it takes now is one simple action to selectively (or corporately) apply MT3.2's...
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Don't Back Down, Tutorials, 8 KB, 474 words
Three times in the last week I received comment spam. If you happened across it while reading one of my entries, I apologize for not getting to it quickly enough. All traces of those comments should be gone, but if you notice more, please let me know about it. Ads for penis enlargement simply aren't wanted here.
In any case - traffic to my blog is pretty low, with the possible exception of the page on the Angler Fish, which seems to be gaining in popularity by the day. Since traffic is low, it's easy for me to police comments. While I have no illusions that traffic might pick up greatly, there's always the chance, and let's face it - I'm lazy. I don't want to spend my day making...
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Eat Drink Sleep MT, Tutorials, 23 KB, 423 words
Really, this is just stretching the work I did to create the previous weighted lists ( keywords and categories). This weighted post date list shows when you've posted the most to your Movable Type weblog(s), sort of like the BlogTimes plugin - but completely different.
Below is the weighted post date list for this web site:
april august december february friday january july june march may monday november october saturday september sunday thursday tuesday wednesday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1976 1987 1989 1990 1991 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001...
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